Cops: Man's threat prompts NY college lockdown

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) ó Police say they're looking for a Massachusetts man whose threats against a student at an upstate New York college prompted officials to lock down the campus.

The Saratoga Springs Police Department says the Skidmore College campus went into lockdown Tuesday night after 49-year-old Lance Leonard made threats to harm the student and then himself. Police say Wednesday morning that they don't believe Leonard is in the Saratoga area and may be traveling in New Jersey.

Authorities say Leonard's last known address was in Cuttyhunk, an island off the southwestern coast of Massachusetts. Police say he's known to be transient, so investigators are getting assistance from authorities in Massachusetts as well as other locations in their search for Leonard.

Police say Leonard shouldn't be approached and should be considered potentially dangerous.